Case Presentation: A 56-year-old M was admitted in Rhode Island with abdominal pain, malaise, and copious loose, bloody stools for 9 days after recurrent ED and outpatient visits for the same symptoms. His diarrhea had worsened despite outpatient amoxicillin-clavulanate, and he was sent back to the ED by GI due to hyponatremia (Na 129) and [...]

Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male with hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented with progressive abdominal distension and pain. He denied fever, weight loss, gastrointestinal bleeding, or any history of gastrointestinal diseases. Physical examination revealed a distended, non-tender abdomen with normal bowel sounds.Laboratory tests showed elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) at 750 U/L, hyperuricemia at 9.0 mg/dL, [...]

Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and mild COPD presented with word-finding difficulties. Initial brain imaging at an outside hospital suggested a left intra-axial peri-Rolandic lesion, raising suspicion for a primary brain tumor like glioma. He was transferred for neurosurgical evaluation, where MRI revealed a ring-enhancing lesion with restricted diffusion, consistent with a [...]

Case Presentation: A 21-year-old woman presented with pain and swelling of her right leg for the past 2 days. She noted that three weeks earlier, she fell off a jet ski in Miami and had some bruising to the area but no open wounds. On physical exam, her right anterior shin had a 3 cm [...]